University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently sent a letter to the governor, Scott Walker, asking him to veto a provision in the state’s new budget that would weaken the tenure provisions of the university’s faculty. The Wisconsin Legislature wasn’t making a value judgment – at least not in the budget –

Americans are optimists. That’s why they hope the economy will start doing better than the tepid economic recovery of the past six years.
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton’s economic plan rests on pessimism. In her bid for the presidency, she’s looking more to ward off Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders and his class-warfa

In hip, and even not-so-hip, circles, markets, restaurants and cultural festivals across the country, local is in. Many embrace this ideal as an economic development tool, an environmental win and a form of resistance to ever-greater centralized big business control.
Yet when it comes to areas being able to choose their urban form and fo

For many Americans, these are – still – frustrating times. Never mind the prospect of a fresh financial crisis or a collapse of our tenuous position in Iraq. Even assuming things trudge on as “normal,” the new normal is a drag. And a key part of our irritation around that fact concerns our disappointing national leadershi

Abortion is a hot topic these days, but please do not overlook the fact that making it illegal will not stop abortions.
Wealthy women will travel to other countries; poor women will get butchered on kitchen tables or use coat hangers on themselves. Those of us women who grew up before it was legal know what I’m talking about.

Re: “Let state run your pension” [Opinion, July 27]: Ha! That’s a good one. Put a den of coyotes in the hen house why don’t you! All the big spenders in Sacramento want is another way to take our money. They would immediately start “borrowing” our money to pay for their criminal spending and wasting of our mon

It didn’t take long for Anaheim City School District’s trustees to snub Orange County Superior Court Judge Andrew Banks’ July 16 ruling that the district had unlawfully rejected the reform effort, supported by almost 67 percent of Palm Lane Elementary School’s parents, to restart the chronically underperforming school.

A couple of weeks ago, a Republican friend of mine mentioned that he thought Donald Trump was really a plant (shill, if you will) for the Democratic Party. I had not thought much about it, but given the havoc and mayhem he has brought to the Republicans and, after reading Carl Cannon’s column in Sunday’s Register [“What drives

Nuremberg, Germany – I am writing from a commemoration, hosted by Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, the California Judges Association and Creighton University in Nebraska, of the 70th anniversary of the war crimes tribunal after World War II. The Allied powers’ trial of Nazi political and military leaders constituted t

The late, great Jack Kemp, an architect of the Reagan tax cuts, used to say, “Without capital, capitalism is just another ism.” Capital is the plant, the machinery, the computers and trucks that businesses invest in to become productive and efficient providers of goods and services.
So it’s strange that Hillary Clinton

Students at low-performing Palm Lane Elementary School in Anaheim recently scored a major victory when Orange County Superior Court Judge Andrew Banks approved a parent group’s petition to assume leadership of the school and convert it to a charter school.
The takeover is especially good news for Palm Lane’s students who are

In early June, the Irvine City Council, on a 4-1 vote, repealed a 2007 ordinance establishing a “living wage.”
Out of the hundreds of contracts entered into by the city, this ordinance covered 15 contracts, and required those employers to pay their workers a minimum of $10.82 per hour, and as much as $13.50.
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For the past four decades, I have enjoyed the privilege of representing thousands of county, city and special district workers throughout Orange County. Representing these wonderful men and women who each day provide the vital services which keep our community and children safe, as well as maintain the public structure that protects the civility

Register editorials have a longstanding and necessary history of respectfully disagreeing with many of the policies pushed by public employee unions. From unsustainable increases in defined benefit public employee pensions to the states unfunded health care liabilities for public workers to teacher tenure, we simply see things differently.